From 2015 some posts are in English. This is just a hobby blog but after five years it receives some 500 visitors per month. I hope someone find it worthwhile reading and perhaps find a tip or two for maintaining a Volvo P1800. Many old pages are in Swedish. Feel free to comment, all posts are open for that. Thanks for visiting.

I was overly optimistic about my separate power feed to the quartz converted clock. I assumed a 12V battery (type “A23”) would keep the clock going for a year or two. That is not the case. After installation the battery was drained in days. I thought it was a bad battery …

Every second year cars need to be tested for safety. July 2013 was my car’s last time. Vehicles from 1950 and older does not have to be tested at all. Cars older than 30 years but younger than from 1950 are called Hobby Vehicles and need to check in no later than 24 months from …

As usual we took the ferry to Gotland for some 10-days vacation or so. Car working perfectly all along. As I’ve had recent electrical problems I got myself a cigarette voltage meter which can be very handy. Found a good one on ebay.uk (quicker dispatch). As it turned out charging/battery is working …

This Sunday me and a friend drove down to Skeppsholmen, a tiny island in central Stockholm. Plenty of tourists all around in best summer weather with 25 celsius. Two nice young beautiful women approached and asked if they could take some pictures of the car. Of course they could and today …

UPDATE: IT TURNED OUT THE BATTERY WONT LAST MORE THAN A FEW DAYS, SEE NEWER POST AUG 2015. Last summer I had the infamous clock mechanism replaced by quartz. When installed I fed it by separate cables from the car battery, something I needed as I have a main breaking switch when …

Had my car fitted with expensive whitewalls rather than the fake sides that I’ve had for a couple of years. Those turned ugly quite quickly – over the summer. On my car the fake walls grinded themselves against the tire producing unwanted noise – and started to turn brown/orange on the edges after just …

Knutstorp Ring is a regional race track in southern Sweden. The Swedish P1800 clubs annual meeting had organized it but I wasnt there. Very nice – looks like a commercial for P1800. Check it out, movie posted by Annelie Ahlman:

So after 9 days it was time for the workshop to take a look. When I came to the car that morning it started fine – and engine running normal. What? So 2 weeks earlier I had a dead battery and last week the engine felt like running on 3 …

So I’ve been to Prins Bertil Memorial a couple of years now and EVERY time my car has gotten a new problem. This was the third time and there’s a saying in Sweden: If you fail twice, third attempt will work (Tredje gången gillt). But it wasn’t to happen. All packed, …

Bought a grille badge from the P1800-club, wonder where to place it – if at all. After a quick poll in the Swedish Facebook-group this will be the position. UPDATE Aug 2015 I did not fit it. Maybe later. Found an RAC badge on ebay.uk that I liked more. Volvo was …

Always nice to find old images, these are from the link above from 1964. Credits go to Målberg and Beste who have spent a lot of time to scan a lot of material. Rest of the brochure can be found HERE. No studio here, just reality up north: Many other …

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